Stephen Hahn wrote:
>   If you identify a popular package for which the pkg install invocation
>   isn't obvious (or nearly so), please comment. 

SUNWsound-exchange              audio/sound-exchange

  isn't "sox" the more commonly used name?  http://sox.sourceforge.net/

SUNWfbc  driver/graphics/fbc    Frame Buffer Configuration Utility (SPARC)

  I'd call that "fbconfig" (the command name) - fbc is just the abbreviation
  to fit the original 9-char pkg name limit.

SUNWerid        driver/network/sun/erid   Sun RIO 10/100 Mb Ethernet Drivers
SUNWged         driver/network/sun/ged    Sun Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (SPARC)
SUNWqfed        driver/network/sun/qfed   Sun Quad FastEtherent Adapter (SPARC)

  I'd drop the trailing "d" from the old package names so that they match
  the drivers they deliver - "eri", "ge", "qfe"

SUNWhmd        driver/network/sun/hmd   SunSwift Adapter Drivers
SUNWhmdu       driver/network/sun/hmdu  SunSwift Adapter Headers (SPARC)

  "hme" to match the driver name would be a better fit for the first.
  Shouldn't the second be merged into the first as part of the root/usr
  package merging?

SUNWxscreensaver      x11/screensaver                           XScreenSaver

  xscreensaver is the upstream package name & the command name, so I'd leave
  the 'x' in x11/xscreensaver.   (Same for all the x11/screensaver/* packages.)

>   Please review the lists
>   in 6186 for package names and add your comments to that bug, or share
>   them here.

SUNWrsgk        driver/network/secure-rpc               kernel RPCSEC_GSS

  That's not really a network driver is it?   Wouldn't "system/network"
  be better since it's for a network protocol, not hardware?

I don't see much distinction between what got put into the file/* vs.
command/* packages - should the file/* just be merged into command/* ?
(command/gnu-findutils vs. file/slocate doesn't make sense for instance.)

SUNWgnome-ui-designer   gnome2/command/ui-designer      GNOME UI designer

   This would seem better as developer/gnome2/ui-designer

BTW, with the release of GNOME 3.0 allegedly coming later this year, do we
want "gnome2/" encoded in all the package names?

SUNWslrn               web/slrn                 slrn - S-Lang read news

   Usenet may be near dead, but it's not really "web" is it?

SUNWpciaccess          service/pciaccess       PCI bus access library and tools

   This is libpciaccess & the scanpci command - there's no service here.
   Should probably be "system/library/pciaccess"

SUNWxcompmgr           system/X11/xcompmgr

   This is a user command so I'd just make it "x11/xcompmgr" instead of
   putting it under system.   (If you do leave it under system, you need
   to fix the typo of capitalizing X, where all the others are system/x11/*)

-- 
        -Alan Coopersmith-           [email protected]
         Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

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